Google lets you traipse down the street
with your laptop in your drawers,
just viewing how their Car captured the City
one day, and preserved it on Maps forever.

You can see the man and his dog
strolling down the avenue
or the nanny rolling the kiddies to the Park
down Seventy Seventh Street
even though it looks like the train just let out
and another street might have been less trafficked.

The City is your still photobook
but of course
there are far simpler
less data-intensive ways
to watch your telenovelas.